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Re: Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser

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Post by deepdarkforest »

felarof wrote: post #15
b0a04gl wrote: post #12

so agents can control tabs, forms, clicks—like a real user would.so what about undo. if an agent clicks the wrong thing, how do you roll that back without reloading the world?

There is a big red button to always stop the agent.

you will run into the same problems the extension approaches have (Like nanobrowser etc). Which is if i have to supervise constantly for non reversible actions, then im no more efficient(actually less i would argue) than just doing the task myself. A human in the loop- pause just before a non reversible action asking for approval maybe? And the user can see all the current things that need approval. But a stop button works just too late imo

Re: Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser

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Post by [deleted] »

grepexdev wrote: post #66
mattigames wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean? This AI cannot scrape multiple links automatically? Like "make a summary of all the recipes linked in this page" kind of stuff? If it can it definitely meets the definition of scraping.

I think what he means is it is not just generally crawling and scraping, and uses a more targeted approach. Equivalent to a user going to each of those sites, just more efficiently.

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Re: Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser

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Post by qualeed »

felarof wrote: post #24
xena wrote: post #17

Do you respect robots.txt?

No, not today. But wonder if it matter if it the agent is mostly using it for "human" use cases and not scrapping?

There's no reason not to respect it.

If your browser behaves, it's not going to be excluded in robots.txt.

If your browser doesn't behave, you should at least respect robots.txt.

If your browser doesn't behave, and you continue to ignore robots.txt, that's just... shitty.

Re: Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser

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Post by deepdarkforest »

This is definitely a winners take all market. Kudos for giving it a shot, but imo browser projects are just too big for a team of 2/3. Plus, google has already demoed at IO the first hint at this. IMO you just cannot move fast enough to grab enough market share as a first/second mover before google just does it on chrome, and that's assuming you can outcompete with Dia in the first place. Even browser-use can do this also, and they have good distribution already.

Good luck, but in your place i would at least start with something that a certain ICP needs more. Many, many manhours have been wasted by ambitious technical founders on taking down Chrome. (many also starting from a chrome fork itself). But none of them succeeded. We only have limited energy

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